Hand-stamp.



G. E. N ORIN & A. G. BOTHOPF.

HAND STAMP.

APPLICATH'! nLz-n Jun 14, mo.

Patented Aug. 8, 1911.

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HAND-STAMP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 8, 1911.

Application filed June 14, 1910. Serial No. 566,776.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, Cam. E. Noam and ALBIX C. Ro'rnorr, subjects of the King of Sweden, and residing at \Voodhavcn, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hand-Stamps. of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to st maps for printing, particularly that class known as hand stamps, and the object thereof is to provide such a device which is capable of a multiplicity of uses heretofore requiring a plurality of distinct stamps.

A further object is to provide means whereby all of such uses are rendered inoperative or an desired combination thereof rendered operative.

A further object is to make such means manually and arbitrarily operative.

A further object is to provide means for printing any one of a plurality of terms or texts employed in business otiiccs.

- A further object is to provide means for printing the day, month, year. and time of day, either alone or in conjunction with any of the above mentioned terms.

A further object. isto provide means for printing any desired. number within the capacity of the device.

A further object is to pro ide means for punetuating at. will after any or all of said terms, numbers, or other characters.

A further object is to provide self-inking means for the said device.

further object is to provide means audibly determined, or by touch, for insuring the alinement of the said printing; and a further object is to provide such a device which is simple in construction and use, which is positive in action, which cannot readily get out of order and require repair, and which is comparatively incxprmsivc.

Our inventionis fully dcscrilwd in the following sptmifieation, of which the ac companying drawings form a part, in which the separate parts are designated by the same reference characters in each of the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of our invention; Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof, partly in sect on, and with the cover retubular member a slidable in a handle a having a rod or in detachable connection therewith and secured, at its lower end, to a casing b, said rod, casing, and handle being normally held in raised position by a spring (1. within the tubular member a all of these parts being of the usual or any desired construction.

Pivotally mounted in each side of the casing b is a stub shaft 6 the outer end of which moves in arid is guided by a slot or groove I) in the vertical members of the yoke 11, thus guiding the casing in its vertical movement through the medium of the handle a, and pivoted on each of the said shafts is a link I" also pivoted to a lever If in pivotal connection, at b, with the yoke members, the outer nds of the said levers being in pivotal connection, at I), to a yoke shaped bar Ir provided with slots If in each of the vertical ends thereof and in which the stub shaft 71 move, thus controlling said bar. said bar being provided with an inkpad c held within a box l-'-' in detachable engagement with the said bar by means of permanent hooks c and a latch r controlled by a sprin Jr".

The casin I: comprises side plates (Z connected by means of a cross-head 15" in turn secured to the rod o and front and back plates ll and (1, preferably detachable, and tlui former of which is provided with a plurality of vertical slots J" and with smaller openings ll directly thercundcr, dividing the face of the plate into a corresponding number of vertical spaces, one of which, in the form shown, has a plurality of business terms inscribed thereon, such as Received, Paid out Charged: etc. another abbreviations indicating the months of a year, another the terms "A. M." and P. M. indicating inorning or afternoon, as well as the numerals from zero to nine inclusive, and the remaining spaces carry the said numerals only, and it will mentioned have twelve rows of terms or characters each, the others have but tcni each. but we do not limit ourselves to any specific number of spaces nor rows, nor to any s cciiie terms or characters thereon, but it is our intention to make the subject matter of any row form a context with that of any other row or rows. I

Arranged centrally of the casing 11 is a shaft 1: which carries a plurality of rotatable disks 0, e, r, and 1:. there being eight of the latter shown and all exactly alike, whereas the others differ from each other in thickness and from those e" both in thickness and in a manner hereinafter described,

- and each of said disks carries a pin e slidably mounted in a lever extending beyond the front plate (1 for each of said disks, said levers being pivotally mounted upon a shaft 0 and being provided each with a slot e concentric with the pivot thereof to admit the shaft 1; and thus permit a greater range of lever movement, and it will be seen that any of the disks may be rotated upon the shaft 1: by means of the corresponding lever, and in either direction.

Arranged directly beneath the levers c are a correspondingnumber of bars 2 extending, beyond the front plate d and slidably mounted upon a shaft 1 by means of a slot f therein, each of said bars carrying a depending member f carrying, in practice, a.

punctuation type, such as a comma, or the.

like, and it will he observed, by reference to Figs. 3 and '4, that forward movement of any of the bars f raises the depending member thereof because of the inclined slot f, thus moving the said character thereon out of operative position, and backward movement carries .he said characters into operative position, and said bars are operable independently of the levers a.

livotally mounted upon a shaft It are a plurality' of pawls it in line, each, with one of the disks a, a c and c and adapted t he engaged by 'ratchet teeth lr"on the said disks, of which there are sullicient to insure twelve operative and one inoperative positions of the said disks 1;, 1" and c, and ten operative and one inoperative. positions of the disks 1;, corresponding to the number of rows of terms or charm-tors on the particular space of the front llltll't' behind or in line with \vhi-h the said disks are arranged, and we al o provide a sprin; It for each of the said paw-Is to insurc'such engagement.

lly rel'cri-n -c to Fig. 6 it. will be seen that the base a." is provided with an open space '1' beneath the casing I) and is also hollowed out on the hottdzn central portion thereof, as shown at I, to permit the passage of chm-ks or other instruments under the said base and, in pra tice, we provide two positioning lingers 1' whereby the line of printing 2" may be accurately determined, as on a As will be noted, by reference to Fig. 3, the disks 0", c and e are provided with twelve type faces corrcspomling, in number to the rows of terms or characters on the spaces on the front plate in line therewith, and the disks 0 have but ten such faces and corresponding to the spaces in line therewith, these type faces being shown at i but;

it will also be observed that the number of pawl engagements of the said disks exceeds the number of type faces by one, thereby leaving an inoperative disk position preferably with the levers in their uppermost position and whereby no printing occurs when the casing 11 is moved toward the'base a but by means of the lever movements the corresponding disks me rotated accordingly and the subject; matter of the said disks, or rather the type faces in operative positions, is indicated on the front plate by the position of the said levers, the passage of the pawls from one point of engagement to another being audible and appreciable to the sense of touch and, because of the pawl springs, an exact, positioning of the disks results, thereby producing exact alincmcnt of the printingperformed by the said disks or type faces, the inking of the type faces takin; place when the casing]: is in its uppermost position, and the ink-pad belug moved out of the way on the downward movement of the said casing as clearly indicated in Fig. 5.

It will therefore be seen that we provide a. stamp capable of a plurality of uses, either separately or in combination and, while we have shown and described one form thereof, it will be obvious that many changes may be made therein and still accomplish the dosired results and, with a reservation to ourselves of all such changes. what; we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:-

l. A device of the class described, comprising a shaft, a carrier therefor, a plurality of disks bearing each a plurality of type surfaces on said shaft, means for rotating said disks into preilctermintal positions, means for holding: the same in said positions, means for moving said carrier to brine said typo surfaces into contact with a surface for printing thereon, and bars bearing punctualing charm-ters a rran ed lictwcen said disks and movable in said carrier to make said punctuating characters once-alive or inoperative.

2. in a device of the class described. a carrier, a plurality of disks rotatable therein, each of said disks being, provided with a plurality of type surfaces, means for rotating said disks to bring any of said surfaces into operative position, means for moving said carrier whereby printing is accompii'shed by the said type surfaces in operain resence of the subscribing witnesses this tive position, and bars slidably arranged be- Ht 1 day of June 1910.

L tween said disks and bearing punctuatin characters and aglapted to be moved into-an v 5 out of operative position individually, at f V will. Witnesses:

' In testimony that we claim the foregoing Gmxcn F. Bmvnm,

as our invention we have signed oun names A J. C. Luann. 

